AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 15 March 1917, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

LIVE STOCK RETURNS. " - 1 Received 8.55. SYDNEY, this day. Live stock returns for New South Wales as at December 31 are: Horses 579,829; cattle 2,245,225; sheep, 33,516,412. Horses show a decrease, and sheep and cattle an increase as compared with the previous year. LIMITING RACE MEETINGS. PERTH, this day. The Assembly has passed a Bill limiting the holding of race meetings to seventy-six days a year. ADVANCES FOR WHEAT. MELBOURNE, this day. In the House of Representatives, Sir John Forrest announced a further payment of 1/ per bushel for wheat will be made to farmers, making it 4/; also fixing the price of maize, ENABLING SOLDIERS TO VOTE. MELBOURNE, this day. A Bill to amend the Electoral Act to unable soldiers abroad to vote at the Federal elections has been introduced. ARMY RESERVE ENLISTMENTS. V ’ MELBOURNE, this day. Arrangements for enlistments in the Australian Army Reserve are com plete. t HORSE FLESH FOR EUROPE. SYDNEY, March 14. The Federal Government’s permission has been sought in regard to the formation of a company to export large quantities of horseflesh for consumption in Britain and France. CONCERNING CABLE NEWS. SYDNEY, March 14. The Equity Court granted the Times, United Service and Reuter’s interim injunctions restraining the Independent Cable Association and Thomas Temperley from infringing, as alleged, cable copyright. Plaintiff’s affidavits state that Temperley admitted personally copying the “Sun’s” cables for transmission to a certain paper, A recent employee of the defendant association alleged tftat he personally heard Temperley direct employees to copy the “Bun’s” cable news to transmit to papers. The judge admitted that there was a similarity of phraseology in the specimens submitted. ,